Ivy Hall Assisted Living Pays $43,000 to Settle Religious Discrimination Lawsuit
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Monday, December 21, 2009 |
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Ivy Hall Assisted Living, LLC will pay $43,000 and furnish
other relief to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit brought by
the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
The agency had charged that Ivy Hall discriminated against a female
housekeeper by firing her rather than accommodating her religious
belief that she wear a Muslim head scarf (hijab)
outside her home. According to the EEOC’s suit, Ivy Hall insisted
that, as a condition of her continued employment, Khadija Ahdaoui
remove and refrain from wearing her hijab on the job.
Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of
1964, which requires that employers make an effort to accommodate
employees’ and applicants’ sincerely held religious beliefs. The EEOC
filed the suit on September 30, 2008 in U.S. District Court for the
Northern District of Georgia (Case No.: 1:08-CV-3067-BBM-SSC).
The consent decree settling the suit, in addition to the monetary
relief of $43,000, includes provisions for equal employment opportunity
training, reporting of any further religious discrimination complaints,
and posting of an anti-discrimination notice. In the suit and consent
decree, Ivy Hall denied any liability or wrongdoing.
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